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To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf)
cc: risner@heathers.stdio.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: mtools 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:12:05 EST."
             <9601311512.AA23283@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> 
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:23:08 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Sorry, but I kind of have the usual chicken and egg problem here.  Since
> I have no ethernet card right now, I cannot download the files into the
> FreeBSD filesystem.  Since I don't have mtools, I cannot get it off of
> a DOS floppy.  Hence my FreeBSD installation is isolated from the rest of

Why do you think that?

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Will mount a DOS floppy directly.  Put the package files you're interested
in on such floppies and use the pkg_add command on each one - you don't
need any fancy /stand/sysinstall menu driven package installation
utilities.. :-)

					Jordan